32 yr old sharing this experience with my kids!
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:53 am
I posted on the other board on here but I figured I would share my story here.
My name is Sharisse and I am 32 yrs old. I have considered braces for many years now because I just didn't like my smile. Then just recently I found out that my bite was what was causing my teeth to break down.....so here my journey begins........
So I got my brackets put on June 8th but I didn't get my wires in until June 21st.
First few days with just the brackets was definitely different.....I had a few offending brackets that I had to wax for the first day or 2...but after that my cheeks started adjusting alot better. I think I popped off my first bracket within about 3 hours of having them put on
Yeah Yeah I bite down on a crunchy piece of pizza...hmmmmm...anyway. One more popped off about 24 hours later.....man my ortho bout kicked my butt....LOL
So when I got the wires put in all was fine for a few hours til the pressure kicked in.....hmmmm definitely a different experience there.
I also realized I had 2 offending wires that I just could not hack so I went to the ortho the following day and had those shaved down....shewww that was a lot of relief....
Since then I have noticed a few things.... 1) I can not bite my nails anymore.....WOOHOO how's that for help breaking a bad habit.<---Love that one.
2) At the same time I haven't really been able to bite anything with my front teeth.....LOL I guess I will adjust sometime...
3) I think I might actually be losing some weight.....(too afraid to step on a scale yet...LOL)
4) Turn about is fair play when it comes to my son....LOL He's loving this![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
So I have 5 children 3 of which have some kind of metal in their mouths....... My son (14) has braces on his uppers....2 of my daughters (10 and
have palette expanders to try and prevent overcrowding. Luckily the others don't need anything yet....my youngest daughter is 6 so he hasn't mentioned anything with her yet and my oldest daughter (17) seems not to need anything at this time....shewwwwww.......
As soon as I am able to post pics I will do so. From what I understand from my ortho I will be getting a coil spring put on my bottom wire for a severly crowded tooth next visit and also some bite bumpers because of a crossbite...HMMMM interesting...LOL
I will keep everyone updated.
Thank you all for all your support. Yeah I'm new but I have been stalking
this board for a little while (since I found out I was getting them)....so I appreciate everyone sharing their stories so I knew what to expect.
Sharisse
My name is Sharisse and I am 32 yrs old. I have considered braces for many years now because I just didn't like my smile. Then just recently I found out that my bite was what was causing my teeth to break down.....so here my journey begins........
So I got my brackets put on June 8th but I didn't get my wires in until June 21st.
First few days with just the brackets was definitely different.....I had a few offending brackets that I had to wax for the first day or 2...but after that my cheeks started adjusting alot better. I think I popped off my first bracket within about 3 hours of having them put on
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
So when I got the wires put in all was fine for a few hours til the pressure kicked in.....hmmmm definitely a different experience there.
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
I also realized I had 2 offending wires that I just could not hack so I went to the ortho the following day and had those shaved down....shewww that was a lot of relief....
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Since then I have noticed a few things.... 1) I can not bite my nails anymore.....WOOHOO how's that for help breaking a bad habit.<---Love that one.
2) At the same time I haven't really been able to bite anything with my front teeth.....LOL I guess I will adjust sometime...
3) I think I might actually be losing some weight.....(too afraid to step on a scale yet...LOL)
4) Turn about is fair play when it comes to my son....LOL He's loving this
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
So I have 5 children 3 of which have some kind of metal in their mouths....... My son (14) has braces on his uppers....2 of my daughters (10 and
![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
As soon as I am able to post pics I will do so. From what I understand from my ortho I will be getting a coil spring put on my bottom wire for a severly crowded tooth next visit and also some bite bumpers because of a crossbite...HMMMM interesting...LOL
I will keep everyone updated.
Thank you all for all your support. Yeah I'm new but I have been stalking
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Sharisse